Faced with having to trade Butler to the team of his choice, Pat Riley got some possibilities to mull from Golden State.

Pat Riley is a basketball lifer who has succeeded at basically every level of the sport, from his playing career, to his time coaching the Los Angeles Lakers, New York Knicks and Miami Heat as ...

Since last season, tensions have festered between Butler and team president Pat Riley, who publicly lamented ... sporadic absences (he’s never played 70 regular-season games in a Heat uniform ...

I recently read a poignant piece about my idol Pat Riley, the enduring NBA fixture who turns 80 in a couple of months. Written by the inimitable Tim Reynolds of Associated Press, it says Riley is not ...

Notre Dame and Ohio State meet in the College Football Playoff championship game. The Buckeyes come away with the national championship.

Pat Riley is no stranger to difficult moments with superstar players, but it’s increasingly clear that he may now be facing his most challenging standoff yet. With Jimmy Butler and the Miami ...

If Pat Riley is going to successfully emerge from the mess he and his team find themselves in, the Miami Heat president will have to take the most difficult advice of his career: His own.

Dwyane Wade has commented on the issue between Jimmy Butler and Pat Riley, describing their conflict as tragic and detrimental to the Miami Heat's reputation. Wade blames egos and pride for the ...

I think that’s what Pat Riley was referring to when he said something along the lines of, “If you’re not playing, you probably should stay quiet.” Obviously, that rubbed Jimmy the wrong way.

Jimmy Butler is upping his efforts to get out of Miami. The Heat superstar met with team president Pat Riley face-to-face last week to reiterate his desire to be traded away from the franchise ...

Two days later, on May 6, Heat president Pat Riley admonished Butler during his end-of-season press conference. “For him to say that, I thought, is that Jimmy trolling or is that Jimmy [being ...